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Spanish Foreign Minister: Spain is working to ensure "real" control to status of human rights in occupied territories of Western Sahara

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Algiers, 20 June, 2013 (SPS) - The Spanish Foreign Minister, "Jose Manuel Garcia Margalo" said on Wednesday that his country is working in the direction to ensure "effective control" of the status of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

 

with regard to Spanish humanitarian assistance to Sahrawi refugees, The head of Spanish diplomacy said during the joint press conference along with his Algerian counterpart that “Spain was "the first donor in 2012 so that such assistance is reduced by 18% in 2013 due to the economic crisis." (SPS)

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